we are becoming more alone
i don't like being alone. i have autism, which makes social situations harder for me, but still, i don't like being alone. if i don't interact with people face-to-face at least once a week, i'd go insane. and sadly, text communication isn't the same.
which makes it a shame that it's becoming harder and harder to be in face-to-face social situations. to make a callback to my post "we have forgotten how to have fun", i'd love to be able to go somewhere fun and interact with people... if only it existed, and didn't take a 20-minute drive to get there. car-centric infrastructure ruins social spaces. so, instead, you go on twitterX or facebook, but oops! no one's in the mood to make friends, they just want to argue and pick fights for no reason. or sell you something you don't need. so you go back to real life, but who's to say that your friends or family aren't more interested in talking with chatGPT rather than you, a human whom they have known for years? (that hasn't happened to me personally, but it has happened to others, and i don't need to experience it myself to know how awful it feels.) and all of this implies you even have enough energy left after getting home from your soul-crushing job to interact with other people in the first place.
so, to sum it up: we can't go anywhere to socialize in a reasonable way, social media ironically incentivizes being antisocial, some people would rather interact with an easily-agreeable robot, and some have run out of the energy to interact at all. as a result...
we are becoming more alone.
and that stinks.
i don't like being alone.